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Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P, Introduces VM_BIND DECOMPRESS

50 min 38 sek zpět
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe driver feature patches to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window...

Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands

1 hodina 36 min zpět
Vulkan 1.4.346 was published today with one big new extension in tow: VK_KHR_device_address_commands...

FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support

1 hodina 47 min zpět
FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements...

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads

3 hodiny 30 min zpět
A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp...

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux

3 hodiny 58 min zpět
For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs...

GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly

4 hodiny 11 min zpět
GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots...

Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM With Support For More Qwen3/3.5 Models

4 hodiny 21 min zpět
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage...

TrueNAS Connect Announced For Offering Enterprise Features Without The Hardware

13 hodin 19 min zpět
Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware...

Ubuntu's AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues - Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation

13 hodin 32 min zpět
The AppArmor Linux kernel security module used notably by Ubuntu Linux and currently maintained by Canonical has been affected by several vulnerabilities made public today...

Linux 7.0 cpupower Now Handles systemd Service Setting EPP, Intel P-State Turbo Boost

12. Březen 2026 - 22:31
The cpupower tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has squeezed in a few improvements today for the ongoing Linux 7.0 development cycle...

Google To Finally Provide Chrome ARM64 Binaries For Linux

12. Březen 2026 - 21:05
Google has shared exciting news with us today that they are bringing their Chrome web browser to ARM64 Linux devices...

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

12. Březen 2026 - 18:41
The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes. A week after that systemd 260-rc2 released with a few more changes and now another week later is systemd 260-rc3...

AMD ZenDNN 5.2 Brings A Major Redesign, AOCC 5.1 Recently Released

12. Březen 2026 - 18:11
AMD today released ZenDNN 5.2 as the latest versio nof their deep nueral network library that now introduces their next-generation runtime architecture. ZenDNN 5.2 is designed to deliver better performance and geater scalability over earlier versions of this AMD library that began as their take on Intel's open-source oneDNN...

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake

12. Březen 2026 - 16:50
Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today's benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a "mitigations=off" configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops.

EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration

12. Březen 2026 - 16:38
EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements...

AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code

12. Březen 2026 - 15:19
Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin...

AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium

12. Březen 2026 - 14:19
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect

12. Březen 2026 - 14:09
In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year...

Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g

12. Březen 2026 - 13:28
Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs

12. Březen 2026 - 13:12
Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)...